Rational vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?
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Capable of reasoning.
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Logically sound; not contradictory or otherwise absurd.
(label) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
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Of an algebraic expression, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
(label) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae.
(mathematics) A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
A rational being.
The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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As nouns the difference between rational and ingenuity
is that rational is (mathematics) a rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers while ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.As an adjective rational
is capable of reasoning.rational
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Alternative forms
* rationall (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rationel, rational, from (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- ¾ is a rational number, but ?2 is an irrational number.
Antonyms
* (reasonable) absurd, irrational, nonsensical * (capable of reasoning) arational, irrational, non-rational * (number theory) irrationalEtymology 2
From (etyl) rational, from , for which see the first etymology.Noun
(en noun)- The quotient of two rationals''' is again a '''rational .
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*ingenuity
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Noun
(en-noun)- The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
- Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .
- Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
- And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.